Gymnastics Hires Diamond as Assistant Coach
Aug 05 | Women's Gymnastics
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Rutgers gymnastics has hired Teri Diamond as an assistant coach, head coach Louis Levine officially announced Wednesday. Diamond will begin her position immediately.
"I am very excited to add Teri to our staff," Levine said. "As an athlete, she was a club gymnast at Hill's Gymnastics and then went on to be a team captain for a conference championship team and an EAGL Team MVP. She has had success at every level of her gymnastics career and is a great fit with coach Danielle D'Elia and myself. I can't wait to get the team back on campus to work with this staff and start preparing for the 2015-16 season."
"I am incredibly honored and privileged for the opportunity to join this team at such an exciting time in program history, and I would like to thank Lou, Danielle and the entire athletic administration for welcoming me into the Rutgers gymnastics family," Diamond said. "I am thrilled to be a part of a coaching staff that shares my same passion and expectations for excellence. I look forward to helping this program build upon the success it has seen under Lou's leadership and establishing Rutgers gymnastics as a dominate force in collegiate gymnastics."
Diamond enjoyed a decorated collegiate career at North Carolina as an all-arounder, where she earned 2011 East Atlantic Gymnastics League Team MVP honors for the Tar Heels. Known for her leadership, Diamond captained her team to the EAGL Championship in both of her final two seasons on campus (2010 and 2011). Diamond was also named the 2010-11 Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete of the Year and appeared on the EAGL All-Academic team, Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll and Scholastic All-America team throughout her tenure in Chapel Hill.
At the club level, Diamond trained at the Elite level at Hill's Gymnastics under coach Kelli Hill, who also worked with former Olympians such as Dominique Dawes, Elise Ray and Courtney Kupets. Diamond was a five time level 10 national qualifier.
Before her arrival "On the Banks," Diamond coached level 9 and 10 gymnastics at Unique Sports Academy in Waldorf, Md. There, she initiated conditioning programs for levels 8-10 and choreographed beam and floor exercise routines for levels 7-10.
A native of Gaithersburg, Md., Diamond earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and mass communication from North Carolina.
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